Sheridan Porfolio Submission (Updated and Fixed)

[Red Mimic]

Hello, wasn't exactly sure what section to put this in but since I'm not done I guess this will be alright.

I applied to Sheridan this year and I was hoping to get some help with my portfolio and anything that needs tweaking, fixing, or a complete overhaul before I submit it at the end of the month.

Here are the pieces I have done so far and scanned, any comments about problems with the drawings or even just the general aim of the picture (if you know what Sheridan is looking for, it would help me a lot).

http://www.geocities.com/mimic_fish/portfolio.htm

More to come as I finish them....

(updated with a few more pictures and one of the drawing tests. They are no longer Text files so no more Xs)

As I said any advice (compliments are nice too :D) would be greatly appreciated.

[endregan]

Good so far!

Are you doing option A or B?

Have you been through art fundamentals yet, or first year at an art college? I think that would be where I would go first, but we all have our different methods

Keep posting, the self portrait, the eyes are a bit large perhaps?

[Yoko Kanno]

I went to, and completed, the illustration program at Sheridan, you'll love the school.

Anyway, the portfolio is nice. But I'm thinking you shouldn't make your files .txt's. :)

[Red Mimic]

Thanks.

The TXT files are because geocities is a jerk and for some reason wouldn't even link to them directly. The txt extentsion tricks the image linking stuff. It screws up some browsers I hear but I'm not sure which ones.

[Punq]

Screws up in Mozilla Firebird... and thats what I use :mad:

[Red Mimic]

There, I took some time and made it into a little webpage (ignore the mongoose). Sorry about all the errors the TXT files caused. I'm looking for something other than geocities tonight.

[Joatley]

Geocities sux. I'd suggest a better host, but I haven't found one yet.

Anyways, u got the basics down. Good drawing skills, a decent understanding of light and shadow. The proportions could use a little work, but you're close. I don't know what exactly that school is looking for, but u could add some variety. Most of these are portraits and you've shown u know how to do that. Maybe add another landscape or 'fill out' those drawings with a background.

[goutweed]

You never specified what program you're applying for. I assume it is Illustration? Do you know what option you'll go for? You have that mech drawing and that makes me wonder if you have an interest in the technical illustration side. Maybe you should add some more linear perspective pieces. Larry Read will be pleased.

[Red Mimic]

Yea it's the illustration program. I'm not sure which way I want to go, but I'm sure i'll figure it out in time.

Yea I should add more variety, but I'm not too strong with colour or painting so I didn't want to add that many of them. I still am going to draw the inside of a church before a deadline for some interior perspective stuff, a figure drawing in pencil, and most likely another inside drawing of somewhere inside the ROM in Toronto.

Do you think it would be a good idea to add a full sized drawing of a skeleton? I have an old study of one that I could shrink and refine.

Thanks for all the replies as well.

[goutweed]

Honestly I think what you have there is strong enough to get in. Rather, I think the skills you have are strong enough to get in. I got into the program without a single colour piece, it was all pencil and conte drawings. However, I did show a variety of subject matter. If you do as you say and throw in some on-location drawings and some figurative work you should be fine.

Regarding that mech: include it only if do you manage to get that other stuff done and you feel you have a well rounded portfolio. If you do it will be a nice addition (assuming it is an original piece... if it is copied from some source I would either drop the piece or site it). If you don't have a fair amount of variety the mech might be something that would turn them away (comic art and the like is not something they want students to be focusing on this early in the game).

Good luck. Be calm.

[Red Mimic]

Thanks Goutweed, this is exactly what I need to know and have never been able to find the first times I submitted one of these. I'll keep on working on those other pieces for the remaning time.

As for the mech, its sorta an odd thing, It a life drawing technically i guess since it's based off a toy model.

I won the model off some website with fanart done of the fantasy version of it.

So I guess it's kinda a grey area, do you think the small note on the back of the of the image saying its a toy model would help clarify it. After reading this, I decided to stick it somewhere in the middle if I do keep it (presently its the first one in the little porfolio book I'm sending in.)

Forgot to mention I'm submitting a sketch book that I started in early 2002 and I just recently finished. It's basically filled with sketches, finished drawings, pages of doodles, logos, lifedrawings, wierd characters, and anything else that popped into my head in the last few years that I didn't feel like developing on a seperate piece of paper.

[goutweed]

Yeah, I like how they consider a sketchbook to be one piece. Remember that they will be flipping through it like mad. If there are some pages that you really want them to see you might want to mark them somehow. I got some of those plastic tabs...

I think you should label the mech drawing. I think you should mark all of them. That is something I don't do anymore, though I know I should. Back then I was so paranoid about not being accepted I did all the things an artist is "supposed" to do (ie. keeping a well documented sketchbook rather than an unseemly pile of loose paper). The stuff I am suggesting is way more anal than I actually am, but the way I thought at the time was they have to go through 1500 portfolios. Anything you can do to help make their jobs easier would be appreciated.

Why am I still awake?